Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb : foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity / / by Giuseppe Veltri.

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Superior document:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, v. 8
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 8.
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Physical Description:x, 275 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: In search of a Jewish renaissance
  • Jewish philosophy : humanist roots of a contradiction in terms
  • The prophetic-poetic dimension of philosophy : the ars poetica and Immanuel of Rome
  • Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy
  • Conceptions of history : Azariah de' Rossi
  • Scientific thought and the exegetical mind, with an essay on the life and works of Rabbi Judah Loew
  • Mathematical and biblical exegesis : Jewish sources of Athanasius Kircher's musical theory
  • Creating geographical and political utopias : the ten lost tribes and the east
  • Ceremonial law : history of a philosophical-political concept
  • The city and the ghetto : Simone Luzzatto and the development of Jewish political thought
  • Body of conversion and immortality of the soul : Sara Copio Sullam, the "Beautiful Jewess".